That's because the X-ray emission of a single atom is just too weak to be detected—until now. SX-STM combines conventional synchrotron radiation with quantum tunneling.

An image of a single atom of the metal strontium suspended in electric fields has won the 2018 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council science photography competition. David Nadlinger ...

A bit is a device that can be assigned a value of 1 or 0. These 1s and 0s add up to pictures, music and the words on this page. For computer memory to work well, these bits have to hold on to ...

‘Single Atom in an Ion Trap’, by David Nadlinger, from the University of Oxford, shows the atom held by the fields emanating from the metal electrodes surrounding it.

That's small. Really small. Each atom is roughly 0.25 nanometers (or billionths of a meter) across; billions of the atoms would fit comfortably inside a single red blood cell.. How do you capture ...

Using nuclear magnetic resonance, researchers at ETH Zurich have studied the atomic environments of single platinum atoms in solid supports as well as their spatial orientation. In the future, this ...

Taken by David Nadlinger and titled “Single Atom In An Ion Trap,” the photo at the top of this story is the winner of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council’s 2018 science ...

NEW ORLEANS — ­The tiniest electronic gadgets have nothing on a new data-storage device. Each bit is encoded using the magnetic field of a single atom — making for extremely compact data ...

And there you have it: a single atom used to store what amounts to a 0 or a 1. The experimenters made two of them and zapped them independently to form the four binary combinations (00,01,10,11 ...

Two is Better than One: Single-Atom Dimer Electrocatalyst for Green Hydrogen Production. Nickel-cobalt metal dimer on nitrogen-doped carbon can catalyze electrolysis under both acidic and basic ...

Powered by a single electrically-charged calcium atom, the new device is claimed to have the equivalent thermodynamic efficiency (if scaled to size) of an average automobile engine.